Heh ok regarding your original ideas, concerning time based skill/spells usage
as well. It sounded like you advocated a more dynamic casting/using time
system. I stated the problem was our timer is rather course. The only
alternative I can think of is to add some statistically variance to the cast
time. Let me explain:

Let's say a spell's cast time is 3 rounds. It would be interesting to
slightly modify that cast time by very small amounts based on certain things.
But since a round is the minimum unit of time, it could only be changed to 2
or 4 at the least. Clearly to drastic imho. But if it could be changed to
2.8 or 3.2, etc... that might be interesting. The only way I can think of to
implement that would be to say a casting time of 2.8 means 2 rounds + 80%
chance that it is 3 rounds. A 3.2, would mean 3 rounds + 20% chance it is 4
rounds.

We could code that no problem (I think), and it might could allow some really
minor changes to cast time based on various things.

I don't know if it would be a good idea or though, but feel free to comment.